John Ruskin (1819-1900), a collection of twelve signed letters, comprising1) a letter addressed to 'Boyce', stating he had 'written to Rosetti' for his address,2) a letter addressed to 'My dear Sir' responding to a gentleman 'enquiring for a Turner autograph',3) a letter addressed to 'Mr Hall' (S.C. Hall, Esq.), worrying that he 'caused Miss Virtue some trouble by not presenting the enclosed cheque' and he sees 'the Palestine exploration people are in want of funds, perhaps Miss Virtue will be kind enough to write a new cheque for them',4) a letter addressed to 'Calverly Hotel, Tunbridge Wells', stating he enjoyed the poems he had received which 'must be the case with every faithful lover of Derwent water - which in spite of a rather - in full consistence with - a more recent devotion to the Alps, I still claim to be - as one loves one's nurse faithfully',5) a letter addressed to 'Mr Mackay' (Charles Mackay Esq.), apologising for a delay in response and wishing to chat to him on his return to England,6) a letter addressed to 'Mr Smith', discussing plates 'just published, - plate 4. 12 guineas. I think this an exorbitant price - I wish you would ask one or two lithographers here what they would estimate it at',7) another to S C Whitworth Esq., thanking him 'for the gift of your book, with every word of which I concur', complete with its envelope,8) a letter address to 'My dear Madam', thanking the recipient for the book and commenting 'the Flaxmann designs become very interesting in this direct association with the text',9) a letter addressed to 'Dear Mrs Barnard', stating 'You needn't come to Oxford, but you must write out the Charter, and sign it & send it to me',10) a letter to Alexander Edmonston Esq., explaining he 'wanted the second part of Sir Charles Grandison - and on sending the first to the library from which I saw it had been purloined, it was claimed as private property - I must therefore refer again to you - and I send back the Blackwood too',11) a letter to Benjamin Vincent Esq., stating his 'letters are all in arrears - I suppose I can be of no service now about the abstract - If it is not printed yet - just put - Can Grande della Scala for Castruccio Castracani',12) a letter addressed to 'My dear Sir', explaining he is 'now done with Walker and Burnet'... 'but I want to see the other three parts of Burnet's work, if I can.', later wanting 'to know the price of 'Collection of Ancient Fragments', by J. P. Cary, 1832', anda further signed letter by J Rosa Barnard,addressed to 'Dear Madame, stating she has received one of her 'mother's letters from John Ruskin which I enclose. It seemed a pity to cut the signature so I send you all of it & am glad for you to have & keep it. Believe me' (13)
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John Ruskin (1819-1900), a signed letter, addressed to Mrs Collins, Paris 21st September 80, encouraging her in her writing: 'tell me what your new children's book is to be about, and write it as you would like to write it - not consulting the Christian Knowledge people's notions more than you choose to' and offering sympathy in her troubles: 'I have not forgotten you, although more often as I remembered, -- the thought of your difficulties and their cruel causes, make me still helplessly silent. Indeed I don't, and never have thought, that our wills can conquer anything, and I am the last to tell any delicate woman she ought to live hardly - many things I may have said against common idlers and useless luxury, -- but nothing [?] of severe in expectation from people who are in hundreds of cases, already living an anchorites life, compared to mine', adding that her letters deeply touch and interest him and that he will assuredly 'keep you at present from feeling yourself in servitude for the sake of fifteen pounds', in a postscript, he offers to send a cheque for £20, with further instalments of money, although he is not sure that she would like that kind of help often ('...But there are times for it...), anda letter addressed to Mr Ruskin, from J R Lowell, 22nd Nov 1859, expressing his delight that Ruskin should admire his work: 'My dear Mr Ruskin,/ to have made one man happy in a lifetime is worth living for, & you have made me happy and proud too in writing to Norton that you counted me among your friends. That you may take for granted, but I must go farther & say, among your debtors as well. My proportion of a debt which I share with all who speak or read the English tongue may be small as far as it concerns you, but to me it is great & lifelong. We all quarrel with you sometimes, but what good could we get from a man who prophesied smooth things? & I am sure that I am not assuming too much when I say that in giving you my hearty thanks for what you have done, I am only doing what all the men whose opinion you would care for in America would gladly do if they had the same pretext for it that I have. I offer you my hand with all my heart, & I pay you my fealty also as to the man who has done for Art what Wordsworth wished to do for Poetry', and asking him if he could contribute an article to the Atlantic Monthly, ending in the persona and feigned hand of Hosea Biglow: 'i go in for the A buv like all git eout/ Hosea Biglow' (2)
John Ruskin (1819-1900), a group of fourteen signed letters, recipients to include Dr Attwell, Mr Learoyd, Butler, Miss Miller, Woodd, Dixon, Mr Stowe, with subjects to include discussing agates, pearls, and Christmas, together with six envelopes addressed to Samuel Learoyd, and an envelope addressed to Mrs S H Holder (qty.)For a comprehensive transcription, please see the condition report.Condition ReportTranscription of letters:'Brantwood, Coniston, LancashireDear Dr AttwellI was so much interested in looking out those stones for you that I’m ready to lend you another lot directly – if you’ve room and care for them. I hope the new lot sent you yesterday are better than those sent to Whiteland’s – but these others won’t be lost, there either.That’s so interesting and so right – about the moral of monsters – but I hav’nt''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire. AmblesideDear Mr LearoydPlease let the agates be sent here, and with thanks for your care and best Christmas wishes believe me your faithful servant John Ruskin Samuel Learoyd Esq.''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.28th April 83My dear SirI am so ashamed of myself for not having answered your kind letters of question about showing the agates – but I have been thinking of several things about them. It seems to me that with your good help, they might be arranged for a loan collection, belonging to the Sheffield Museum, and – when long enough at one place taken to another.You will at once see at looking over them that all have separate phenomena. Several are ,(in my experience unique) and all are chosen for things which need notice in each specimen ‐ If you will at present number and shortly describe each – and show just as you think best. I would afterwards consult with you on what more might be said, with secure basis of science, of the possible mode of production of each – and print the catalogue so settled.This cannot be till after our Oxford work is done – but for the present exhibition please take all authority. I think my stones usually look best on white silk or deep red or purple velvet – in which when the collection is finally arranged you might have niched places for each stone Ever most truly Yours J Ruskin''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.27th Dec. 84Dear Mr. LearoydNo. I could not take up pearls. – they are a result of disease. And would never interest me, but I should like to see an exhaustive book on them – Silica is more than ever I shall manage, ‐ but please tell me of any points of new interest that occur to you in it at any time Ever faithfully yours J Ruskin''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.3rd MayDear Butler,I’m quite delighted with all the small silvers ‐ and all the besicas – and the rest are very nice I return a pound’s worth of what I don’t want – see accounts and enclose cheque for £5 with hearty thanks. The 15/‐ chlorite is superb – quite worth £1 to me – the largest indescent Madagascar, the best I ever saw.I’m not well, stomach out of sorts – or that metal‐book would have been done by this time – I Don’t know what you could have got out of my talk – you said you should like to know things – And I said – so should I! I think that was about all. But I’ll write and print the catalogue of collections for you directly. Ever affectionately yours JR''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.17th April 83My dear SirI will look out the stones directly – but your own arrangement will be entirely satisfactory to me – it will be a delight to think of your seeing them. – I will wait on Col. R; the moment I’m in town againEver faithfully yoursJ Ruskin''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire18th May 86My dear SirI accept your Companionship very gladly, having at last given up the idea of the Guild’s being a monied power; and contenting myself with making it a bond and an influence for assured good.Do not hasten to leave your position under Dr. Gore. You could not be in a more useful one that of a practical experimental philosopher – as you grow in years – holding yet the faith you have now signed Ever faithfully yours John Ruskin''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire. Christmas 86My dear SirI find nothing so uselessly wasteful of my time as lending either drawings or minerals, and have vowed to trouble myself no more, in that kind – but if I would – assuredly not for Manchester. Even at Xmas time I forgive them not their Thirlmere theft. Ever faithfully yours John Ruskin''Herne Hill, S.E. London20th June 77Dear Miss Miller,I have been twenty times of the edge – never yet well over the edge –of answering your mostvaluable letters – but you will see in next days I have not forgotten them.Is Eastover House an established and permanent school – and would its trustees like me to lend Some agates and other stones for her pupils to play with and think of? Ever gratefully Yours J. Ruskin''Brantwood, Coniston, Lancashire.12th Feb. 85Dear Woodd,Many thanks. The Phots are beautiful. I had taken good ones myself, of course; but these beat them considerably. I’ve ordered a report of St. George to be sent to you. I shall expect a grand subscription to my Museum. Ever affectionately yours J Ruskin Charles H. Woodd, Esq.''I have not read the slips yet they seem most interesting.Venice, 6th MayDear DixonI have been terribly neglectful of you. I was very glad to see your hand today, but what to know how you are.I must really organize this St. George’s company by drawing up some legal documents myself which the Companions shall sign. I am sick of the lawyers’ delays and the Trustees are shy of acting for want of clearly knowing to whom they are responsible.‐ So you will have to declare that you they have no business with the matter – but that you only hold the Master responsible for the management. Ever affectionately yours J Ruskin' 'Denmark Hill23rd AprilMy dear Mr StoweI’ve had this returned letter by me ever so long and always forgotten to ask you to forward it – and now I’m leaving town – but I shall be back D.V. early in the summer – and most happy then to see your friend. Yours very truly J Ruskin''Denmark Hill, CamberwellMonday 1st OctoberMy dear SirI could not earlier reply to your letter – having left several days of this week open to choice to different friends whom I wanted to see – having only just come home from Switzerland – I have no forenoon time open just now – could you & Mr. Gregory favour me by coming some evening? Friday or Saturday? If not I shall have forenoon time next week. Truly yours, J Ruskin It is a long way for you to come – if Mr Gregory could be at Queen Sq. on Saturday, or Friday at one o’clock, I would come there.''Denmark Hill, S.7th Oct.My dear Sir.In this fine weather I am out all day my business goes to the dogs. I am heartily obliged to you for your letters and for the kindness of sending me an account of Mr. Stevenson – Forgive me, as well as him, the trouble we have caused you and believe me yours faithfully and obliged J Ruskin'
Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge, 'Lewis Carroll'). The New Belfry of Christ Church, Oxford, a monograph by D.C.L., 1st edition, Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1872, half-title present, together with: The Vision of The Three T'S. A Threnody by the author of "The New Belfry.", 1st edition, Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1873, half-title present, plus:The Blank Cheque, a Fable, 1st edition, Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1874, half-title discarded, final leaf with small area of restoration to blank gutter margin, and:The Dynamics of Parti-cle, with an excursus on The New Method of Evaluation as applied to π [pi], 3rd edition, Oxford: J. Vincent, 1865, small closed tear to upper blank margin of title-page, some spotting, toning to final leaf, and:Notes by an Oxford Chiel. Facts, Figures, and Fancies, relating to The Elections to the Hebdomadal Council, The Offer of the Clarendon Trustees, and The Proposal to Convert the Parks into Cricket-Grounds., First Printed in 1866-1868, Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1874, a few minor marks, all uniformly bound in modern half calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on calf label laid onto upper covers, gilt decoration to spines, 8vo QTY: (5)NOTE:Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 88 (1); 94; 97; 41b; & 99.
Wizard of Oz Tin Man Jack Haley signed 1965 Bank Cheque for $1600 to Santina Brothers. John Joseph Haley Jr. (August 10, 1898 - June 6, 1979) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, radio host, singer, drummer and vaudevillian. He was best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man and his farmhand counterpart Hickory in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lehmann (Germany) Tinplate Clockwork ‘OH-MY’ Alabama Jigger, EPL 685, circa 1912-15, lithographed tin, jointed dancer with red cheque trousers, blue jacket, orange tie and yellow hat, black and white spats, on tinplate base/stage housing, working clockwork mechanism, when wound the dancer jigs up and down, turning around, in fair used original condition, Approx H.25.5 cms, Lehmann Tom 385 Climbing Monkey, with green felt covered coat, yellow waistcoat, red fez, missing tassel, in good used original condition, Lehmann Gustav the Miller mechanical toy, mill with tinplate sails, climbing miller and sack, good to fair condition, with a spare Gustav and Lehmann 550 AHA delivery van in poor condition, missing rear door and one front wheel. (4 items)
TENNYSON ALFRED: (1809-1892) English Poet Laureate 1850-92. D.S., A Tennyson, being a signed cheque, London, 25th April 1783. The partially printed cheque is drawn on the London & Westminster Bank and is completed by by Tennyson´s wife, Emily, made payable to ´the account of J. Prior Esqre. with Messrs. Matlock & Co for Hallam Tennyson´ for the sum of ´Twenty seven pounds, six shillings & two pence´. With various ink stamp and perforated cancellations, including a ink stroke lightly running through part of Tennyson´s signature. VGHallam Tennyson (1852-1928) 2nd Baron Tennyson. British aristocrat, the eldest son of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Hallam served as his father´s personal secretary and biographer, and was also Governor of South Australia 1899-1902 and the second Governor-General of Australia 1903-04.
DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English Novelist. A.L.S., Charles Dickens, with paraph, one page, 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 20th November 1849, to Dr. [Thomas] Southwood Smith ('My dear Dr. Smith'). Dickens states that he is sincerely obliged to both his correspondent and Lord Ashley for the trouble that they have taken ('The latter interprets my wish quite accurately') and further remarks 'I will take a share in the permanent society. If you will kindly give the Treasurer (whenever you may happen to see him) the cheque you hold on account, I will pay him the balance if he will communicate with me'. About EXThomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861) English physician and sanitary reformer. Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1801-1885) 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. Lord Ashley. English politician, philanthropist and social reformer.
PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish painter, a co-founder of the Cubist movement. A wonderful, visually appealing A.L.S., Picasso, one page, slim folio (approximately 10.5 x 56.5 cm), Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, Alpes Maritimes, 18th December 1963, to Max [Pellequer] (´Mon cher Max´), in French. Writing in bold purple ink on an unusual sheet of fine watermarked folding stationery, Picasso states, in full, ´Voici le chèque (n'est plus présent) que vous me demandez. Le courrier part de suite. Amitiés de nous deux. Je vous embrasse´ (Translation: ´Here is the cheque (no longer present) you asked me for. The post is going out right away. Best wishes from both of us. I kiss you´). As well as adding a paraph beneath his signature, Picasso has filled the base of the page with a simple purple spiralling squiggle, transforming the letter into a piece of artwork in its own right. About EXMax Pellequer (1903-1973) French banker and art collector who would become Picasso´s private banker, financial adviser and close friend. Pellequer assembled an important collection of artworks in the 1920s and 1930s which included a number of significant early pieces by Picasso, as well as works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and others. Almost two hundred letters from Pellequer to Picasso are preserved in the Musee National Picasso in Paris.In 1961, Picasso, who had discovered Mougins in 1936, bought Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie from the Guinness family as a wedding present for his future wife Jacqueline. Referred to by Picasso as the ´house of my dreams´, the large villa (set in three hectares and with views over the Bay of Cannes) would be the artist´s final residence.For Picasso, everything that passed through his hands was immediately transformed into a work of art, and the present letter is no exception.
BARRIE J. M.: (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and playwright, remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. A.L.S., J M Barrie, one page, 8vo, Old Cavendish Street, Cavendish Square, London, 15th March 1891, to the Editor of The Fortnightly Review. Barrie writes, in full, ´I have to acknowledge with thanks receipt of cheque for £10 for article "Pro Bono Publico" in the Fortnightly´. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VGFrank Harris (1856-1931) Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher who was editor of The Fortnightly Review from 1886-93. Pro Bono Publico has been described as ´a brilliant skit on biographers´.
FLEMING ALEXANDER: (1881-1955) Scottish biologist, Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine, 1945. T.L.S., Alexander Fleming, one page, 4to, Paddington, London, 24th April 1950, to Dr. I. Geikie-Cobb, on the printed stationery of The Wright-Fleming Institute of Microbiology at St. Mary´s Hospital Medical School. Fleming states that his correspondent´s letter was waiting for him on his return from America, and continues to inform Geikie-Cobb, ´I am not prepared to give copyright to the publishers. I have no intention of publishing it elsewhere except possibly it may appear in some series of collected works at a future date. If they are not prepared to accept it under these conditions, I shall have much pleasure in returning the cheque.´ Together with a retained carbon typed copy of Geikie-Cobb´s letter of reply to Fleming, signed with his initials I G-C, one page, n.p. (London), 26th April 1950, stating, in part, ´Perhaps I might explain that all the publishers wanted was a guarantee that no copyright was being infringed in your article. I gather publishers are always nervous that some other firm may hold copyright, and that by publishing material they mind find themselves in difficulties later. I have seen Messrs. Harrap this afternoon and they are quite agreeable to your suggestion that you retain the copyright and give them permission to use the article on the understanding that by doing so they are not infringing copyright held by other people´. Two file holes to the left edge of each letter, and a few minor, light creases, otherwise VG, 2Ivo Geikie-Cobb (1887-1953) Physician, author and journalist who wrote numerous works that dealt with medicine and disease, as well as publishing (the pseudonym Anthony Weymouth) seven mystery novels with a medico-scientific interest that featured his series detective, Inspector Treadgold of Scotland Yard.
VLAMINCK MAURICE DE: (1876-1958) French Painter, one of the principal figures of the Fauve movement. A good A.L.S., `Vlaminck', one page, 4to, on his « La Tourilière Rueil-la-Galière, Eure & Loire » printed stationery, n.d. [Juillet 1928], to Monsieur Guiot, in French. Vlaminck refers to the engravings sold to his correspondent, stating `Par le même courrier je vous fais parvenir les deux paquets gravures signées. L´une : Le carrefour à Sotteville-Les-Rouen. L´autre : La place du marché à la Ferté. Vous serez aimable de me faire parvenir le montant convenu par chèque barré´ («By the same shipment I send you the two signed engraving packages. One of them containing: The Crossroads at Sotteville-Les-Rouen. The other one containing: The Market Square in La Ferté. You will be kind enough to send me the agreed amount by crossed cheque ») Very small tear to the left edge, otherwise G to VG Marcel Guiot was a French Editor and Art Dealer, owner of a well-known gallery at 4 rue Volney in Paris.The engravings mentioned in the present letter are `La Ferté-Alais, Place du Marché´ (1928), and `Le Carrefour de Sotteville-Les-Rouen´ (1928), both being drypoint etchings.
BRETON ANDRE: (1896-1966) French Writer and Poet, the co-founder, leader and principal theorist of surrealism. A.L.S., Andre Breton, also signed to the enveloppe, one page, 4to, Paris, 9th December 1956, to the librarian Monsieur Moncharmont, in French. Breton sends a cheque to his correspondent for the payment of the books he has bought, including Le Grand Livre de la Natureou l´apocalypse philosophique et hermétique by Osward Wirth, a work related to occult philosophy and hieroglyphs, and Le Vase Sacré et ce qu´il contient dans l´Inde la Perse et la Grèce et dans l´Eglise chrétienne. Breton states `Veuillez trouver ci-joint un chèque correspondant au montant de ma dette envers vous. Je m´excuse d´avoir un peu tardé mais je viens seulement de rentrer à Paris.´ (Translation: "Please find enclosed a check for the amount of my debt to you. I apologize for being a little late, but I have only just returned to Paris.") Accompanied by the original enveloppe, addressed in Breton´s hand, postmarked and stamped and with the sender´s name and address to the verso. Small overall foxing stains, otherwise G to VG
PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish painter, a co-founder of the Cubist movement. A wonderful illustrated A.L.S., Picasso, one page, oblong 4to, La Californie, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, 22nd October 1959, to Max [Pellequer] (´Mon cher Max´), in French. Picasso forwards a cheque (no longer present) for the Union de recouvrement de Sécourité Sociale in Nice, and continues ´M.J'ai demandé à Monsieur Bach à Vauvenargues les renseignements que vous me demandez.Je vais les recevoir de un instant à l'autre´ (Translation: ´I have asked Mr Bach in Vauvenargues for the information you requested. I should receive it any moment now´), further sending his best wishes to Pellequer´s wife, and concluding with a curious phrase, ´Court mon aiguille dans la laine......´ (Translation: ´Run my needle through the wool......´). To the upper left corner of the page Picasso has added a beautiful and vibrant original illustration of the brightly shining sun, drawn in blue, orange, green, yellow and black crayons; the orange and blue rays of the sun formed around two circles, one green and one yellow, and with a black dot in the centre. A magnificent and rare illustrated letter by Picasso. A couple of very light, extremely minor creases, and with a small, neat tear to the lower edge, close to, but not touching the paraph of Picasso´s signature. VGMax Pellequer (1903-1973) French banker and art collector who would become Picasso´s private banker, financial adviser and close friend. Pellequer assembled an important collection of artworks in the 1920s and 1930s which included a number of significant early pieces by Picasso, as well as works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and others. Almost two hundred letters from Pellequer to Picasso are preserved in the Musee National Picasso in Paris.
Dickens (Charles, novelist, 1812-70) Autograph cheque signed "Charles Dickens" paid to "Mrs Hedderley" for the sum of "Ten Pounds"drawn on Messrs Coutts & Co, 1 page, printed with manuscript insertions and crossed, folds, small pieces of tape in corners, laid down on card, 94 x 187mm., London, 8th October 1868. *** The cheque is made out to Ellen Hedderley (1830-86), the All the Year Round office housekeeper, appointed in late 1866 after Dickens' longtime servant John Thompson, the previous AYR housekeeper was dismissed for stealing from the cash box.
Darwin (Charles) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, first edition, half-title, folding lithographic diagram, 32pp. of publisher's adverts at end dated June 1859 in Freeman’s variant 3, half-title, title and first 2 leaves of contents repaired at gutter, slight creasing to title and first contents leaf, occasional faint spotting, slightly heavier at beginning, p.467 small marginal tear repaired (just touching text), overall generally clean, hinges strengthened, endpapers rubbed, original publisher's green cloth in Freeman's variant a, extremities faintly rubbed, housed within modern green morocco-backed drop-back box, [Freeman 373], 8vo, John Murray, 1859.*** '...certainly the most important biological book ever written' (Freeman).Provenance: Roy Norr [bookplate, (1910)]; Paul Hyde Bonner (1893-1968) American financier, diplomat, author and book collector [armorial bookplate]; John D. Sherman, Jr (1872-1960) entomologist and entomological book dealer, sold to Melville Harrison Hatch (1898-1988) American entomologist [cheque dated 6 November 1945 to Sherman for $85, loosely inserted and bookplate].
Warren Beatty signed cheque dated 1977 with black and white photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Jack Haley signed cheque dated 1968 with a black and white photo as Tinman from The Wizard of OZ, framed measures 17 inch by 12-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Adam West signed cheque dated 1980 with colour photo as Batman, framed measures 12 inch by 17-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Goldie Hawn signed cheque dated 1974 with black and white photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Telly Savalas signed cheque dated 1977 with 2 colour photos, framed measures 14 inch by 13-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Jack Palance signed cheque dated 19982 with colour photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sharon Stone signed cheque dated 1992 with colour photo, framed measures 12 inch by 17-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
David Janssen signed cheque dated 1973 with colour photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Ava Gardner signed cheque dated 1948 with black and white photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Robert Mitchum signed cheque dated 1995 with black and white photo, framed measures 12 inch by 16-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
George Clooney signed cheque dated 1995 with colour photo, framed measures 12 inch by 17-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Vincent Price signed cheque dated 1977 with colour photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula, framed measures 12 inch by 17-inch appx. Good condition Est. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
* Nicholson (William, 1753-1815), English chemist, writer, translator, publisher, inventor, patent agent and civil engineer who, with Anthony Carlisle was the first to achieve electrolysis. Autograph Cheque Signed, ‘Wm. Nicholson’, 30 December 1785, a partially printed document completed in Nicholson’s hand, being for the receipt of £84 received from James Phillips, ‘on account of the General Chamber of Manufacturers’, inscribed by Nicholson under his signature, ‘Secy. To SD. Institution’, blind stamped duty stamp to right margin, some browning and toning, pencil inscription in an unidentified hand written vertically to left margin, 8 x 20.5 cmQTY: (1)
* Bonnie Prince Charlie. A silver teaspoon alleged to have been used by Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788), also known as ‘The Young Pretender’ and ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, engraved ‘Carolus Princeps’ and ‘I G’ within a rectangle on the reverse of the handle, 12 cm long, contained in a bespoke plush-lined hinged morocco case with push button fastener by Green & Ward, London, with their gilt embossed circular logo to base, c. 1800, remains of old lot number label to base, ‘Lot 78’, 14 cm longQTY: (4)NOTE:There are two manuscript notes relating to this item contained with the lot. The first is from B. Baldwin, watchmaker, jeweler & optician in Loughborough, 19 August 1885, and addressed to Mrs Wilson ?Burgess: ‘The “Prince Charlie” silver spoon, is one he had in his use during his flight with Flora Macdonald, and was left behind in the hurry and excitement of the time, - you will see how it had been treasured, with it being kept in a morocco case especially made for it: - I do not know the name of the clergymen at whose sale it was bought, but I had it from a gentleman who bought it there, and I had several other curiosities from the same collection’. The second is a memorandum from the same jewelers addressed to Miss G. Binyon, 11 September 1895: ‘Mr Baldwin wishes to thank Mrs G. Binyan for the cheque, value 1 guinea “Carolus Princeps “silverspoon, which he has just received. He believes Miss G. Binyan, in purchasing it has [secured?] quite a genuine and unique curiosity, as there can be no doubt it was the property of Prince Charlie’. The second letter is torn with some loss to upper left corner.After his defeat at the battle of Culloden Moore in 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie fled for his life. After two months on the run he met 24-year-old Flora on the island of South Uist. Flora assisted the Prince to escape while dressed in disguise as Betty Burke, an Irish spinning maid. Charles eventually made it back to France. Charles is said to have presented Flora with a locket containing his portrait, though they never met again.
* Johnston (Anthony Collyer). Manuscript wartime log book, 28th January-1st April 1945, 13 pp. in pencilled manuscript relating to time as a POW, a further approximately 50 pp. of pencil manuscript notes, pencil sketch of a British fighter plane signed 'R. Reynolds Sagan 21/6/44' to recto of one leaf, 2 small silver gelatin photographs, meal ticket and cheque enclosed in rear pocket, original cloth, lacking backstrip, small 8vo, together with a folding map and a copy of Beryl Salt's Pride of Eagles which contains passages on Johnston in RhodesiaQTY: (3)NOTE:Johnston initially trained and served in Rhodesia before becoming a Commanding Officer in 56 Squadron in the Second World War. He was shot down over Spaarndam on 13th January 1943 and later reported as a POW. The diary concerns his movements in early 1945 when many prisoners were moved between camps because of the oncoming Soviet forces. He was held in Stalag Luft III and mentions the Americans 'collected a parcel each at the store; yanks couldn’t have had time to fix up sleds since they broke up their panels & the show was a shambles of broken boxes & tins of marge & milk'.
* Film Autographs. A group of 8 ink autographs of actors, individually signed album pages and cards, comprising ink signatures of Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable (signed cheque for $5.20, 11 August 1947), Robert Mitchum, Merle Oberon, Richard Burton, Harry Langden, John Wayne (first day cover for Remember the Alamo, 14 June 1956), 4 framed with reproduction portraits of the subjects (Bogart & Bacall together), framed and glazed, various sizesQTY: (8)NOTE:Sold with all faults not subject to return.
* Fawcett (Millicent Garrett, 1847-1929), English political activist and writer, and leader of The National Union for Women’s Suffrage Societies. Autograph Letters Signed, 'M. G. Fawcett', 2 Gower Street [London], 2 December [1892?] and 15 December 1892, both to Miss Broderick, the first thnking her and enclosing a cheque for £2.2.0 and saying that it 'will be very good of you if you can manage to extract the sheets of the new Murray for me before I go [pressumably one of Murray's Guides]' apologising that Agnes cannot come on Friday and saying she is just off to Aberdeen and excusing her haste, 3 pages, the second letter agreeing with Miss Broderick 'that the fees proposed to be paid to women lecturers under Miss Bradley's scheme are much too low', 1 page with integral blank leaf, both 8vo, together with two further autograph note cards signed, 'M. G. Fawcett', one a brief thank you card in envelope addressed to Miss Atkinson, Sale near Manchester, the card dated 12 June 1890, somewhat spotted, the second on personal stationery card and addressed to Miss A. A. Mortin, accepting her kind invitation to meet Miss Broderick and apologising that her sister will be in the country so cannot make it to, some overall spottingQTY: (4)NOTE:Mary Broderick (1858-1933), British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She lectured at the British Museum for a series of lectures titled ‘Ancient Egyptian History and Antiquities’, the lectures being open to both men and women. She edited the 9th edition of Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in lower and upper Egypt (1896).
Gary Lineker signed 6x4 inch colour photo includes Gary Lineker signed on behalf of walkers Crips Champion Cheque Giveaway. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Assorted Zimbabwe Hyperinflation Banknotes, 7 in total to include; Special agro-cheque $50 billion 15th May 2008; $25 million 30th June 2008; $50 million 2nd April 2008; $20 billion 2008; (2x) $20 trillion 2008; and the highest issue, a $100 trillion 2008; mixed grades with the last four notes being extremely fine to about uncirculated
A collection of assorted railway employee and pay cheque tags, largely GWR (Great Western Railway) and CWR marked, some marked with depot or department designations such as "CARRIAGE & WAGON", "LOCO DEPT", "SIGNAL DEPT", "C & W", and "CIVIL ENGINEERING" and othersIf there is no condition report shown, please request
STAR WARS: A CARRIE FISHER autographed cheque for the sum of $201.40 dated 1980, the cheque is headed with Carrie Fisher's name along the top and was apparently for Xmas Gifts, together with an 8" x 10" colour photograph of Carrie in costume as Princess Leia from STAR WARS. This lot has been independently checked by Garry King and comes with an Excalibur Auctions Certificate of Authenticity
JACK HALEY - A cheque signed by Jack Haley the actor who portrayed the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1939) in a cardboard mount displayed with a black and white image of his character, this item has been independently checked by Garry King and comes with an Excalibur Auctions certificate of authenticity
Fidel Castro signed vintage cheque with accompanying 10x8inch vintage black and white photo. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY (BRITISH 1887-1976) GOING TO THE MILL, 1925 signed and indistinctly dated (lower left), oil on panel 43.2cm x 53.4 cm (17in x 21in) Acquired directly from the Artist by A.S. Wallace, 1926, and thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited:On long-term loan to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2013-2024L S Lowry’s early masterpiece Going to the Mill was painted a hundred years ago and, quite remarkably, has been in the same private family collection for all but one of those hundred years. It was acquired directly from Lowry by the journalist A.S. Wallace, an editor at the Manchester Guardian who had illustrated three of Lowry’s works in the special ‘Manchester Civic Week’ supplement published by the paper. Civic Week was held from the 2nd to the 9th of October 1925, ostensibly to celebrate Manchester’s industrial success, but also with an ulterior motive to discourage the city’s disgruntled workers from going on strike. It was the grim nature of the workers’ lives that, of course, interested Lowry, but which also made it hard for him to find an audience for his visual elegies of the industrial city – a concept that is perhaps hard to fathom now, for those of us that have grown up knowing Lowry as one of Britain’s most celebrated ‘painters of modern life’. During Civic Week, Lowry’s works were displayed in Lewis’s department store, where they were mostly passed by – despite the favourable reviews the Guardian had given his first solo show in 1921. A.S. Wallace, however, fell for Lowry’s depictions of the ‘lovely, ugly town’ (to borrow from Dylan Thomas’s description of his hometown of Swansea), striking up a friendship with the artist and asking to buy one. Lowry duly obliged: Going to the Mill is marked on the back as being £30 – Lowry let Wallace have it for £10. If not his first ever sale, this has to have been one of his earliest. He also threw in an additional work - The Manufacturing Town. The Wallace family still have Lowry’s letter of 9th November 1926, in which the artist writes: ‘Many thanks for your letter and cheque £10. I am very glad Mrs Wallace likes the picture Going to Work and take the liberty of asking you to please accept The Manufacturing Town as a souvenir of the Civic Week. I can assure you that it will always be with great pleasure that I shall think of that Saturday morning.’ The latter painting was sold by the Wallace family – with Lowry’s blessing, as he understood that a new generation of the family needed help getting set up – and is now in the collection of the Science Museum in London. Going to the Mill was kept – recently being on long term loan to Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, and only comes to market now as a further generation finds themselves in need of a ‘leg up.’Going to the Mill is the epitome of a 1920s Lowry, when he truly becomes a unique voice. In the overall smoky, sooty quality of the sky and buildings – it will be a few years yet before Lowry begins to stage his visions of the city against isolating backgrounds of plain flake-white – we see the influence of his teacher, Alphonse Valette, who had been drawn to Manchester precisely for its grit and the Romantic quality of its dark streets and thick polluted skies, the poetic fallacy of heavy-set architecture shrouded in smog, from which individual stories emerged, lamp-lit for moments, before being swallowed up by the gloom. Yet Lowry holds our attention to these individual lives much longer (and this is eventually the function of those white backdrops, to separate individuals from the mass and to hold them in time). Looking at Going to the Mill, initially all we see is a crowd, drawn inextricably – like water pouring towards a drain – to the gate of the mill on the left. But Lowry invites us to spend time looking, and slowly the painting reveals the men walking away from the mill, the woman standing alone looking out at us, drawing the viewer into the lives of others, or the man carrying what seems like a large portfolio, who could be an avatar of Lowry himself. As such, the crowd is broken down into individuals, each with a story – a story that Lowry himself manages to capture with a flick of the brush, a weighting of the paint, a bend of the knee or turn of the shoulder. Going to the Mill shows us that he is no naif painter of ‘matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs’ as the old pop song goes – this is an artist of true dexterity who is making a deliberate formal choice, abstracting the figure, in order to express a concept, the sense of a life lived in even the smallest, most incidental figure. His works are as composed and deliberate as Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte but imbued with an intensity of feeling more easily found in Van Gogh’s early paintings of Dutch peasants. These comparisons are not over-blown, not least as Lowry, in the early 30s, was one of the very few British artists exhibiting in the Salon in Paris and gaining recognition for the precision and intensity of his vision. And it is important to note that it was T. J. Clark, the great art historian of French painting of the late 19th and early 20th century, who curated Lowry’s 2014 Tate retrospective and presented Lowry deliberately as another of the great ‘painters of modern life’.Lowry’s paintings are never simple renditions of what he saw on the streets of his beloved city (or, more accurately, cities – Salford and Manchester). Works such as Going to the Mill are theatrical in their conception, which is why the ‘backdrop’ of the mill at Pendlebury repeats itself, often in altered configurations, throughout his works – such as the slightly later A Town Square, formerly in the Midland Bank collection, which sold at Sotheby’s in 2024. The city becomes a stage for an exploration of loneliness, isolation, loss, hope, although in Lowry’s hands the buildings themselves function as actors – figuring birth, marriage, death and the tyranny of mill-time, before, in later works, they are enveloped in an all-consuming white of Beckettian structure. Lowry was an inveterate theatre-goer who – intriguingly, instructively – cited both the 1920s ‘kitchen sink’ drama Hindle Wakes and Luigi Pirandello’s absurdist masterpiece Six Characters in Search of an Author as highly influential on his work. The breadth between these two plays indicates the breadth of Lowry’s conceptual framework for his apparently ‘simple’ painting. This conceptual reach, centred on the urban experience, is – as T. J. Clark argues so persuasively - what makes Lowry so relevant today, in our world of megalopolises, many of them growing at the same break-neck speed as Victorian Manchester once did.
The 'Battalion of Passchendaele 1917' D.S.O, M.C. group of six awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel R. A. Rochford, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, late Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Grenadier Guards, awarded a field commission in 1915 he served with distinction, losing an arm in the same action which won him the D.S.O. he remarkably continued to serve and was responsible for the defence of Avonmouth docks and Filton Aerodrome during the Second World WarDistinguished Service Order, G.V.R. silver-gilt and enamel; Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914 Star, with clasp (13664 Sjt: R. A. Rochfort. 1/G.Gds:); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. A. Rochfort.), with M.I.D. oak leaves; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (6)D.S.O. London Gazette 15 April 1915, the original citation states:'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When the Battalion, on its way up to the line, was heavily bombarded with gas and other shells and was in danger of losing its way in the gas masks in the darkness, he placed himself at the head and guided it to its forming -up place in time. Although severely wounded the following day while leading his men, he remained with them for nearly two hours, until forced to desist through sheer exhaustion. He showed splendid determination and resource.'M.C. London Gazette 17 April 1917.M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916.M.I.D. London Gazette 23 May 1918.Richard Adair Rochfort, whose middle name is sometimes spelled Adare, was born at Dulwich in December 1880, the son of Marcus and Mary Rochfort. His father was a mining engineer in India and returned to Britian just prior to his son's birth, settling at Roslwyn, Lewisham. He himself was married at Forest Hill, Lewisham in 1907, his career listed as farmer.Rochfort entered the war in France on 6 October 1914 with the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards in the rank of Serjeant. Detached to serve with the Army Cycling Corps, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant on 15 April 1915 with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Further advanced Captain on 12 October 1915 Rochfort was later transferred again to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and began to serve attached to the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment.Rochfort was attached to that Regiment when he was awarded his M.C., so it is likely that he joined them at some stage in 1916. They saw action during the taking of the Schwaben Redoubt from 25-27 September before leaving the line over Christmas 1916. Leaving their billets for action in early 1917 they were heavily involved in the Battle of Boom Ravine from 17-18 February, and it was likely for one of these two actions that Rochfort was awarded the M.C.Remaining with the Regiment he was still with them at the opening of the Third Battle of Ypres. They were severely mauled attacking Sanctuary Wood, and during the course of that action one member of the unit, Medical Officer Harold Akroyd, was awarded the Victoria Cross. Their final engagement was at Poelcappelle, starting on 9 October, during which the C.O. Lieutenant-Colonel Longhurst was killed in action. Rochfort succeeded in leading the Battalion into action two days later however his wounds were severe enough his arm was had to be amputated.Despite this injury he remained in service until the end of the war. He was accused of passing a bad cheque in 1923 while Adjutant of the London Regiment, but was subsequently acquitted of the crime. His obituary in the Eastbourne Gazette gives further details to his career stating:'Col. Rochfort, who served with the Grenadier Guards, was responsible for the defence of the Avonmouth docks and Filton aerodrome during the last war.'It goes on to note that Rochfort retired at the end of the Second World War and died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley on 23 July 1954; sold together with copied research.…
A fine Basset-Lowke boardroom model of the Warwick Castle, the laminated and carved wooden hull finished in red and lavender grey with white topsides (Castle-Line livery), lined lacquered decks with detailed gilt, silvered and painted fitting including winches with chains, anchors, ventilators, deck rails, painted and lined superstructure with covered lifeboats, powered by Bassett-Lowke steam plant driving a single screw propeller, approx 140cms long, mounted on a display stand within its original glazed display case, case size 162cms wide, 62cms high, 40cms deep. Provenance: the ship was commissioned by Mr H M Blenkinsop Esq, 1 New Street, Warwick, in 1935 with various correspondence letters between Bassett-Lowke Ltd and Mr Blenkinsopp charting the models progress including a letter acknowledging receipt for a cheque of £10:10s, another for the supply of the display case, blueprint drawings and a facsimilie photograph depicting Warwick Castle in steam, summer 1936. Provenance: from the collection of the late Tony Cuff.
Zeppo Marx signed Security Pacific National Cheque dated 28.8.73 comes with 10x8inch black and white photo. Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx was an American comedic actor. He was the youngest, and last survivor, of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers feature films from 1929 to 1933, and then left the act for careers as an engineer and theatrical agent. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
SIGNED CHEQUE. – Alex KERSHAW. Jack London, A Life. London: Harper Collins, 1997. First edition, with a tipped-in signed cheque written and signed by Jack London, 8vo (233 x 149mm.) Errata slip, photographic illustrations. (Mild toning, small tear to the cheque.) Original black cloth, dust-jacket. Note: the cheque is made out to the ‘Sunset Telephone Co.’ to the amount of $4.35 and is stamped ‘APR 7 1905’ in purple ink by the ‘Central Bank, Oakland’. London spent much of his childhood in Oakland and the waterfront bars include Johnny Heinhold’s ‘First and Last Chance Saloon’ which inspired much of ‘Call of the Wild’ and ‘The Sea Wolf’ and is mentioned many times in ‘John Barleycorn’. Oakland also has a ‘Jack London Square’ and ‘Jack London Train Station’. Provenance: from the estate of the late David Sadler.
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